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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

In the course of nurturing our coffee addiction we came to know Rose who worked at Piccolos Coffee shop here in Taupo. Rose shared with us her journey into parenthood. When she announced that baby was on the way we decided we must make a wee quilt. It so happens that Roses’ husband Jason works at the Honda garage where I have my car serviced. Today the car went in for a health check. When I picked it up I delivered our wee quilt to Jason – with strict instructions that it was not to be peeked at until he was home with Rose.

I do enjoy quilting these baby panels. Such fun to get some texture in there.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

gathered at our house today. Moira is thinking of Christmas already!
Aren’t these Santae cute? Doesn’t matter which side of the table you sit on, Santa will be watching you.
Moira is stitching around her Santae with a metallic thread.
It was Andreena’s turn to receive her Birthday Blocks, pattern Chinese Block:
She was going to set these on point but they look so snazzy just like this that I think she may just sew them together. The secondary pattern which emerges has lots of movement.
Debbie has been busy with her Yoyo maker again.
…and with making this wall hanging for Maxie:
Debbie’s free motion quilting has added a lot of interest and texture.
Thanks for visiting
PS after everyone left I felt there was still a presence in the room.Eyes were following me! Look who’s sitting on top of our TV:

Saturday, May 11, 2013

A little while ago Todd of This Guy Quilts asked me if I would like to quilt his Scrappy Speckle Quilt. Would I what! I love Todd’s patchwork style and I love a modern quilt with lots of room to play.

Todd surrounded those tiny triangles with with white strips and then trimmed them down to squares, These finished at 3” in the quilt top,tiny, oh and by the way there 400 of these squares!

Todd gave me the go ahead to quilt his amazing top as I thought fit. Brave man! I was nearly having palpitations at the thought and then the idea popped into my mind to super impose some large triangles across the quilt and have them looking like they went over and under each other. So after much crawling around on the floor and marking the stitching commenced:

The centre triangle in the middle of each large triangle filled with pebbles. I thought lots of texture would look good.

After the pebbles I added wavy lines out to the border and piano keys in the border.

I am so in love with this quilt. I took it on down to our local Rose Garden for a photo session.

It’s such a bright vibrant quilt.

Because it’s so light and stitched with white on white it’s hard to see the texture but I hope you can.

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I live in beautiful Taupo, New Zealand with my sister , two fur persons (cats). I have three brothers and three sisters. I have been patch working and quilting for over 30 years. My passion is machine quilting. Quilting is the music of my life. I quilt all my own quilts. I also quilt for other people. If you like my style and would like me to quilt for you please click on my Machine Quilting Tab for further information.